October 2012 MATH ACT

<p>No, Toma, it was the one that had a system of equations, for which x = 4 and another system that was the same except had radicals around x and y.</p>

<p>businessbeast, i put 2-root(5) as well… I wasn’t 100% sure</p>

<p>Did anyone know how to do the isosceles triangle one with 50 degrees?</p>

<p>@karatekid… No I don’t remember that question; I’m guessing I didn’t even get that question. Does anyone remember the question with a graph about soil and which section fits the criteria?</p>

<p>The system of equations answer was 16. Since the square root of 16 is 4… That equals the first system of equations. The pentagon question the answer was 72 degrees.</p>

<p>Did you all actually finish all the questions? My son said there were 70 questions to be done in 60 minutes. After the test was over, one kid said “Did anyone manage to finish them all?” No one did.</p>

<p>OMG @actsat 2400 SAME HERE!! i always finished with 15-20 mins extra and get 35 or 36 but I did NOT do well this time… It was definitely pretty hard</p>

<p>It seems liek the only thing that I’ve missed so far is the roots one.</p>

<p>I had a brain fart, so I chose 2-root(5) first… but then I changed it to E.
I know that if a root exists, then its conjugate exists as well @.@</p>

<p>I tricked myself, gah.</p>

<p>Yes! Got it right</p>

<p>No there’s 60 questions in 60 minutes. I finished all of them.</p>

<p>I put 2-sqrt(2) also, but that’s a complete guess.</p>

<p>I can’t remember if I put 4 or 16 for the last one, but I solved it by multiplying the first equation by 3 and then adding the two equations together. The first system of equations where x and y were NOT under radicals had nothing to do with the question I think.</p>

<p>What the answer to the one about the triangle and the law of cosines when the angle was >90 degrees. I put that a2 + b2 < c2 sine the cos of an angle greater than 90 will be negative, making c2 greater than the others.</p>

<p>I usually finish all question except for maybe 1 or 2 but man this time it was tough</p>

<p>It is 60 questions in 60 min. You should be able I finish them all if you speed through the easy ones. Can’t make stupid mistakes though… Lol</p>

<p>What was the answer to the question where it asked to find the area of the shaded region and the figure was like a rotated sqaure whose verticles was the midpoints of the outer square? the sides of the inside square was a length of 8. I kept getting an answer that wasnt one of the answer choices. I was soo confused.</p>

<p>3pi?</p>

<p>10 chr</p>

<p>@Nivers1027 It was 32</p>

<p>Okay, so just to clarify and ask: </p>

<ol>
<li><p>The question with the tangent circle or whatever was 60? </p></li>
<li><p>The question directly before ^ that one was…? </p></li>
<li><p>The first one of the 3 part question was 8K? I kind of guessed on that because I kept getting freakin’ 12K >.></p></li>
<li><p>The last question was 4? or was it 16…? (I don’t even remember 16 being an option. lolololololol</p></li>
<li><p>The question that asked for roots or something… #54, I think. Was it the answer with + and - radical blahblahblah?</p></li>
</ol>

<p>There were different forms so everyone had different questions. 72F was ridiculously easy hahaha unfair but awesome.</p>

<p>Last question was 16. I’m 100% sure…</p>

<p>For the tangent, wasn’t it 30?</p>

<p>It gave us the y and the x for the tangent point.
Weren’t we supposed to use trig to fidn that?</p>

<p>Iris- I put 3pi too…</p>

<p>but i’m pretty sure it was 60 :o</p>